Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again .
2 So she paid for it on the spot and took it home .
3 after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ?
4 They talked about it on the way down in Goblander .
5 A bomb containing 2,200 lb of explosive was detonated in an irrigation canal as Falcone 's car ( and the three other cars in a convoy ) passed over it on the motorway leading away from Punta Raisi airport about 5 km from Palermo , Sicily .
6 We voted against it on the ground that it seemed absurd to respond to a crisis in the beef sector simply by throwing yet more money into a system which has not been reformed .
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